BG Report: Sangi Line in Mie, Japan
Riding Mie's most eccentric rural railway • Sangi Line
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I’d call today pretty much a success, diabetes-wise. It was a day of much walking, as I rode and walked around the Sangi Railway’s Sangi Line in northern Mie Prefecture, Japan.
It began early, and well. All night, and when I woke up at 6:30 am, my BG had been right around 100 even. Breakfast was in my hotel, a buffet. It wasn’t unusual food for me, and it wasn’t too chock full of carbs, but it did give me my usual post-breakfast spike.
So, from the time I left the hotel, rode part of the Sangi Line, and stepped off the train at one of the stations, it was a flat line around 220.
So, at that station, Hokusei-Chūō-Kōenguchi, I paused in the waiting room for a quick corrective Humalog shot, then went exploring.
And riding the train some more through the rural areas, dodging oncoming freight trains – a situation common to this line but very unusual in Japan generally.
By 11:30 pm, I was back down to where I wanted to be: 106. But it wasn’t as good as it seemed: I was just beginning my walk from Nyūgawa Station about half an hour to Ise-Hatta Station. The 106 wasn’t sturdy; I could feel it getting lower.
So I had some glucose powder and some chocolate, and began walking.
Lunch at Ise-Hatta Station
BG held up fine, and when I got to Ise-Hatta Station it was lunch time. Rice, pretzel sticks, and more chocolate pieces. Normally an 8-unit meal, I took a mere five units.
It worked well: I climbed to about 225 but immediately started heading back down. When I got back to my hotel around 3:30, I was 86. And it was time for an afternoon snack: free hotel coffee and some donut bites from a 7-11.
Two coffees for afternoon snack – the hotel cups are so small
The rest of the day – another 7-11 meal for dinner, in the room, while reviewing footage from the train ride – my BG never again went over 200.
BG 114 at 10:30 pm
Some tricky doses and timing to deal with today, but I think I did pretty well.
